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My Conversation with our Founding Fathers.

Imagine you can interview the Founders. What questions would you ask
them? How do you think they would respond? I did this little thought
exercise and came up with the following: Today it has been my pleasure
to sit down with our Founding Fathers and ask a few simple questions
about their thoughts on what has become of the US and the Constitution.

I will start first With John Adams. Mr. Adams why a Constitutional Republic, why not a new American Parliament? “A
constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the
people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a
general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability,
good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment
inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and
enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober,
industrious, and frugal. There is no good government but what is
republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is
so; for the true idea of a republic is “an empire of laws, and not of
men.”’ That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that
particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words, that
form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and
exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.”
What was your mindset with regards to the American Revolution? “But
what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American
war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The
Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their
religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…This radical
change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the
people was the real American Revolution.”
What do you think about God being kicked from our schools and government? “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.
Mr. Washington, What are your thoughts on the US hosting and being a part of the UN? “Against
the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me
fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly
awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one
of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.”
Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts do you have any thoughts on the current 2nd Amendment assault? “Whenever
governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they
always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon
their ruins.”

Mr. Mason, It has been taught that the American Revolution was started over a tax on tea, do you have any thoughts? “When
the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the
British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of
Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most
effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly,
but weaken them, and let them sink gradually.”
Mr. Jefferson What is your stance on the Federal Reserve? “If the
American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of
all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered.”
Have you had a chance to form an opinion on Anti-Gun Legislation? Laws
that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse
for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to
encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked
with greater confidence than an armed man.
Can you elaborate? “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Senator Henry Lee The argument for more gun legislation was that there isn’t a Militia any longer? “A
militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves … and
include all men capable of bearing arms.” “To preserve liberty, it is
essential that the whole body of people always possess arms…”
Mr. Franklin, would the American people be a little safer with fewer guns? “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Mr. Jefferson do you think there should ever be another American Revolution? God
forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The
people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong
will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they
misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is
lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty…. And what
country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from
time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let
them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon
and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
One last question for Mr. Jefferson, Should we look at the
Constitution as a living Document and try to make it fit the current
mindset? “On every question of construction [of the Constitution],
let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was
adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of
trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against
it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
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